Designing Fresh Flower Arrangements: Working the Flower Color Wheel
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- The Flower Color Wheel
For vibrant, intense results, combine Complementary colors in your bouquets and arrangements. These appear across from each other on the color wheel: Yellow-Purple, Blue-Orange, Red-Green. When you put Complementary colors side-by-side they tend to enhance the intensity of each other.
- Complementary Color Combinations for Fresh Flower Arrangements
You can create soothing, harmonious, romantic fresh flower combinations using Analogous colors. These are families of colors that are next to each other on the color wheel, like “Blues” (blue, blue-violet, blue-green), or “Yellows” (yellow-green, yellow, yellow-orange).
- Analogous Color Combinations For Fresh Flower Arrangements
You can also create unusual, exciting combinations using Triadic colors, basing your flower choices on three colors that are equidistant from one another on the color wheel. Think yellow/red/blue, or purple/green/orange, or blue-green/yellow-orange/red-violet.
- Triadic Color Combinations for Fresh Flower Arrangements
Of course, this is just the beginning. As you get more comfortable working with different harmonies, start experimenting with Value and Saturation. (We’ll look at those a little more closely in a later post.) You’ll start to see combinations that work and don’t work, and will begin to see how following some basic design guidelines can lead you to beautiful success in floral design.
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Simple question, complicated answer.
There are two categories of color: Pigment and Light. And they treat black and white oppositely (is that a word??).
In video (light color — say, if you’re a techno-bob who might know the call letters to the Starship Enterpise
), white is the combination of all color, and black is the absence of color.In pigment (for the more artsy-types) — paint, dye…flowers — black would be all color (mix all colors together, you get something close), and white would be…none.
A color wheel, by design, deals only with hues – the rainbow of all colors in a ring. It doesn’t address the convergence or combination of color, which is what you’d need for white or black.
But we have a post coming up about saturation and value…and value is where white, at least in layman’s terms, comes into play. So maybe that will help!
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Oh… a little techie/nerd dig there, huh?
The reason I asked was because Sarah made an arrangement the other day that looked like a triadic color combination. She used lavender lace-capped hydrangea with smallish yellow-orange sunflowers. Combined with the deep green leaves from both the hydrangea and sunflowers, she hit three colors equidistant on the color wheel.
The thing is, she also used white daisies (maybe asters?) in the arrangement. It looked very nice and when I reread this post, I didn’t see any mention of white (or black).
It’s hard trying to wrap my techie brain around these artsy design ideas but I’m trying. Very informative and interesting… looking forward to upcoming posts. Thanks!
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